Abstract
It is often argued today that the states system is in decline, that it is giving place, or will give place, to some fundamentally different form of universal political organisation. What evidence is there that between now and the end of the century the states system is likely to be replaced by one or another of the alternatives discussed in the last chapter?
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On this point see S. Prakash Sinha, New Nations and the Law of Nations (Leyden: Sijthoff, 1967).
See Joseph Nye, Peace in Parts: Integration and Conflict in Regional Organisations (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1971).
See, for example, Lord Gladwyn, ‘World Order and the Nation-State: A Regional Approach’, in Conditions of World Order, ed. Stanley Hoffmann (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1970).
See International Committee of the Red Cross, Draft Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 (Geneva, 1973).
See Samuel P. Huntingdon, ‘Transnational Organisations in World Politics’, World Politics, vol. xxv, no. 3 (April 1973).
See George Ball, ‘The Promise of the Multinational Corporation’, Fortune, vol. 75, no. 6 (1 June 1967); and
J.-J. Servan-Schreiber, Le Défi Américain (Paris, 1968).
Robert Gilpin, ‘The Politics of Transnational Economic Relations’, in Transnational Relations and World Politics, ed. Joseph Nye and Robert Keohane (Harvard University Press, 1972).
Z. Brzezinski, Between Two Ages (New York: Viking Press, 1970) p. 3.
Karl W. Deutsch and Alexander Eckstein, ‘National Industrialisation and the Declining Share of the International Economic Sector 1890–1959’, World Politics, vol. XIII (January 1961).
See Geoffrey Blainey, The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance shaped Australia’s History (Melbourne: Sun Books, 1966).
For a persuasive statement of this view, see Osvaldo Sunkel ‘Development, Underdevelopment, Dependence, Marginality and Spatial Imbalances — Towards a Global Approach’, a paper presented to the Conferencia del Pacifico, Vina del Mar, Chile (1970).
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Bull, H. (1977). The Decline of the States System?. In: The Anarchical Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24028-9_11
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